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Originally Posted by pl001
There are two batteries, one in the keyboard and one in the tablet. So presumably the battery life as a tablet will only be about 6 hours.
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You are assuming the GPU resides behind the screen. It does not.
The Surface Book has two graphics units, the one embedded in the CPU module and the discrete GPU in the base. Once the base is detached, the GPU and its power drain goes away. That is why it has *three* configurations, two with GPU, one without.
And the reason the media is enthused is because there were no hints it was coming and because there is nothing like it out there. There is genuine innovation in that design. Modular laptops are not exactly a dime a dozen all over.